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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds
192a6be2a7 fix signed range problems with hex conversions
Make hexval_table[] "const".  Also make sure that the accessor
function hexval() does not access the table with out-of-range
values by declaring its parameter "unsigned char", instead of
"unsigned int".

With this, gcc can just generate:

	movzbl  (%rdi), %eax
	movsbl  hexval_table(%rax),%edx
	movzbl  1(%rdi), %eax
	movsbl  hexval_table(%rax),%eax
	sall    $4, %edx
	orl     %eax, %edx

for the code to generate a byte from two hex characters.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-30 15:01:37 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
65c6aca4d4 Add DLH to .mailmap
... and make the entries sorted.
2007-05-30 10:45:55 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
bc8e478a28 Style nit - don't put space after function names
Our style is to not put a space after a function name.  I did here,
and Junio applied the patch with the incorrect formatting.  So I'm
cleaning up after myself since I noticed it upon review.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 23:31:19 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
b77ffe8a57 Ensure the pack index is opened before access
In this particular location of fsck the index should have already
been opened by verify_pack, which is called just before we get
here and loop through the object names.  However, just in case a
future version of that function does not use the index file we'll
double-check its open before we access the num_objects field.

Better safe now than sorry later.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 23:31:06 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
eaa8677039 Simplify index access condition in count-objects, pack-redundant
My earlier lazy index opening patch changed this condition to check
index_data and call open_pack_index if it was NULL. In truth we only
care about num_objects.  Since open_pack_index does no harm if the
index is already open, and all indexes are likely to be closed in
this application, the "performance optimization" of inlining the
index_data check here was wrong.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 23:30:11 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
7ff895c0d2 Test for recent rev-parse $abbrev_sha1 regression
My recent patch "Lazily open pack index files on demand" caused a
regression in the case of parsing abbreviated SHA-1 object names.
Git was unable to translate the abbreviated name into the full name
if the object was packed, as the pack .idx files were not opened
before being accessed.

This is a simple test to repack a repository then test for an
abbreviated SHA-1 within the packfile.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 22:50:10 -07:00
James Bowes
1055880e7c rev-parse: Identify short sha1 sums correctly.
find_short_packed_object was not loading the pack index files.
Teach it to do so.

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <jbowes@dangerouslyinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 17:53:44 -07:00
Martin Koegler
e3dfddb377 builtin-pack-object: cache small deltas
Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 01:24:42 -07:00
Martin Koegler
074b2eea29 git-pack-objects: cache small deltas between big objects
Creating deltas between big blobs is a CPU and memory intensive task.
In the writing phase, all (not reused) deltas are redone.

This patch adds support for caching deltas from the deltifing phase, so
that that the writing phase is faster.

The caching is limited to small deltas to avoid increasing memory usage very much.
The implemented limit is (memory needed to create the delta)/1024.

Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 01:24:42 -07:00
Martin Koegler
a588d88aaf builtin-pack-objects: don't fail, if delta is not possible
If builtin-pack-objects runs out of memory while finding
the best deltas, it bails out with an error.

If the delta index creation fails (because there is not enough memory),
we can downgrade the error message to a warning and continue with the
next object.

Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 01:24:42 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
322bcd9a9a Merge branch 'db/remote'
* db/remote:
  Move refspec pattern matching to match_refs().
  Update local tracking refs when pushing
  Add handlers for fetch-side configuration of remotes.
  Move refspec parser from connect.c and cache.h to remote.{c,h}
  Move remote parsing into a library file out of builtin-push.
2007-05-29 01:24:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a77a33a51d Merge branch 'dh/repack' (early part)
* 'dh/repack' (early part):
  Ensure git-repack -a -d --max-pack-size=N deletes correct packs
  pack-objects: clarification & option checks for --max-pack-size
  git-repack --max-pack-size: add option parsing to enable feature
  git-repack --max-pack-size: split packs as asked by write_{object,one}()
  git-repack --max-pack-size: write_{object,one}() respect pack limit
  git-repack --max-pack-size: new file statics and code restructuring
  Alter sha1close() 3rd argument to request flush only
2007-05-29 01:16:28 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
41ffe5cdf5 Merge branch 'np/delta'
* np/delta:
  update diff-delta.c copyright
  improve delta long block matching with big files
2007-05-29 00:49:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
96cbd573d4 Merge branch 'jc/nodelta'
* jc/nodelta:
  builtin-pack-objects: remove unnecessary code for no-delta
  Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects.
  pack-objects: pass fullname down to add_object_entry()
2007-05-29 00:41:50 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8a15e1b719 Merge branch 'ar/verbose'
* ar/verbose:
  Add another verbosity level to git-fetch
  Verbose connect messages to show the IP addresses used
2007-05-29 00:41:36 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e157938a92 Merge branch 'ar/run'
* ar/run:
  Allow environment variables to be unset in the processes started by run_command
  Add ability to specify environment extension to run_command
  Add run_command_v_opt_cd: chdir into a directory before exec
2007-05-29 00:41:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8250465859 Merge branch 'ar/mergestat'
* ar/mergestat:
  Add a configuration option to control diffstat after merge
2007-05-29 00:38:52 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
9953a00ef2 Merge branch 'rr/cvsexport'
* rr/cvsexport:
  Add option to cvs update before export
2007-05-29 00:37:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
79d5576a4f Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  cvsserver: Fix some typos in asciidoc documentation
  cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable
  cvsserver: Correct inetd.conf example in asciidoc documentation
  user-manual: fixed typo in example
  Add test case for $Id$ expanded in the repository
  git-svn: avoid md5 calculation entirely if SVN doesn't provide one
  Makefile: Remove git-fsck and git-verify-pack from PROGRAMS
  Fix stupid typo in lookup_tag()
  git-gui: Guess our share/git-gui/lib path at runtime if possible
  Correct key bindings to Control-<foo>
  git-gui: Tighten internal pattern match for lib/ directory
2007-05-29 00:27:24 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
24a97d84ad cvsserver: Handle 'cvs login'
Since this is a trivial variation of the general pserver
authentication, there is really no reason not to support
it.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:27:21 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
b3c81cff02 t9400: Work around CVS' deficiencies
If we are too fast with our changes, the file in
the working copy might still have the same mtime
as noted in the CVS/Entries. This will cause CVS
to happily report to the server that the file is
unmodified which can lead to data loss (and in
our case test failure).

CVS sucks!

Work around that by sleeping for a second.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:27:21 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
2e4aef5893 Allow contrib new-workdir to link into bare repositories
On one particular system I like to keep a cluster of bare Git
repositories and spawn new-workdirs off of them.  Since the bare
repositories don't have working directories associated with them
they don't have a .git/ subdirectory that hosts the repository we
are linking to.

Using a bare repository as the backing repository for a workdir
created by this script does require that the user delete core.bare
from the repository's configuration file, so that Git auto-senses
the bareness of a repository based on pathname information, and
not based on the config file.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:27:21 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
b33271808b mailsplit: fix for more than one input files
Earlier commit d63bd9a broke the case where more than one input
files are fed to mailsplit by not incrementing the base counter
when splitting second and subsequent input files.  This should
fix it.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:27:06 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
a192a909c0 cvsserver: Fix some typos in asciidoc documentation
Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:11:22 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
548428954a cvsserver: Note that CVS_SERVER can also be specified as method variable
Reasonably new versions of the cvs CLI client allow one to
specifiy CVS_SERVER as a method variable directly in
CVSROOT. This is way more convinient than using an
environment variable since it gets saved in CVS/Root.

Since I only discovered this by accident I guess there
might be others out there that learnt CVS on the 1.11
series (or even earlier) and profit from such a note
about cvs improvements in the last couple years.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:11:22 -07:00
Frank Lichtenheld
893c365aba cvsserver: Correct inetd.conf example in asciidoc documentation
While the given example worked, it made us look rather
incompetent. Give the correct reason why one needs the
more complex syntax and change the example to reflect
that.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-29 00:11:22 -07:00
Steffen Prohaska
c78974f7b6 user-manual: fixed typo in example
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-28 23:54:35 -07:00
Andy Parkins
dfab71cb92 Add test case for $Id$ expanded in the repository
This test case would have caught the bug fixed by revision
c23290d5.

It puts various forms of $Id$ into a file in the repository,
without allowing git to collapse them to uniformity.  Then enables the
$Id$ expansion on checkout, and checks that what is checked out has
coped with the various forms.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-28 23:54:35 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
cdd5b82ee8 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  git-svn: avoid md5 calculation entirely if SVN doesn't provide one
  Fix stupid typo in lookup_tag()
2007-05-28 23:54:26 -07:00
Eric Wong
7faf068660 git-svn: avoid md5 calculation entirely if SVN doesn't provide one
There's no point in calculating an MD5 if we're not going to use
it.  We'll also avoid the possibility of there being a bug in the
Perl MD5 library not being able to handle zero-sized files.

This is a followup to 20b3d206ac,
which allows us to track repositories that do not provide MD5
checksums.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-28 23:49:47 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c63a3ad2c1 Merge branch 'maint' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui into maint
* 'maint' of git://repo.or.cz/git-gui:
  git-gui: Guess our share/git-gui/lib path at runtime if possible
  Correct key bindings to Control-<foo>
  git-gui: Tighten internal pattern match for lib/ directory
2007-05-28 20:23:10 -07:00
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
59d10247e4 Makefile: Remove git-fsck and git-verify-pack from PROGRAMS
Those are builtins. Remove them from PROGRAMS variable

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-28 20:00:45 -07:00
Johan Herland
eb09626b94 Fix stupid typo in lookup_tag()
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-28 16:51:55 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
ea75ee3598 git-gui: Guess our share/git-gui/lib path at runtime if possible
Johannes Sixt asked me to try to avoid embedding the runtime location
of git-gui's library directory in the executable script.  Not embedding
it helps the MinGW to be relocatable to another directory should a user
wish to install the programs in a directory other than the location the
packager wanted them to be installed into.

Most of this is a hack.  We try to determine if the path of our master
git-gui script will be able to locate the lib by ../share/git-gui/lib.
This should be true if $(gitexecdir) and $(libdir) have the same prefix.
If they do then we defer the assignment of $(libdir) until runtime, and
we get it from $argv0 rather than embedding it into the script itself.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2007-05-27 00:03:37 -04:00
Nicolas Pitre
366b53c170 update diff-delta.c copyright
There is actually nothing left from the original LibXDiff code I used
over 2 years ago, and even the GIT implementation has diverged quite a
bit from LibXDiff's at this point.  Let's update the copyright notice
to better reflect that fact.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:28:13 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
843366961c improve delta long block matching with big files
Martin Koegler noted that create_delta() performs a new hash lookup
after every block copy encoding which are currently limited to 64KB.

In case of larger identical blocks, the next hash lookup would normally
point to the next 64KB block in the reference buffer and multiple block
copy operations will be consecutively encoded.

It is however possible that the reference buffer be sparsely indexed if
hash buckets have been trimmed down in create_delta_index() when hashing
of the reference buffer isn't well balanced.  In that case the hash
lookup following a block copy might fail to match anything and the fact
that the reference buffer still matches beyond the previous 64KB block
will be missed.

Let's rework the code so that buffer comparison isn't bounded to 64KB
anymore.  The match size should be as large as possible up front and
only then should multiple block copy be encoded to cover it all.
Also, fewer hash lookups will be performed in the end.

According to Martin, this patch should reduce his 92MB pack down to 75MB
with the dataset he has.

Tests performed on the Linux kernel repo show a slightly smaller pack and
a slightly faster repack.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:28:13 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
693d2bc625 Attempt to delay prepare_alt_odb during get_sha1
Not every input value passed to get_sha1 is an abbreviated SHA-1.
Its actually quite common for refs to be passed and for those
refs to resolve to full SHA-1s, in which case we may not need to
initialize the alternate object database list in this process.

I'm relocating the call to prepare_alt_odb closer to the code
that actually needs it to maintain the fix first introduced by
Junio in 99a19b43 (to avoid ambiguous SHA-1 abbreviations from
being accepted).  This allows us to avoid the alt_odb list setup
if we won't actually need it.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:28:08 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
7dc24aa5a6 Micro-optimize prepare_alt_odb
Calling getenv() is not that expensive, but its also not free,
and its certainly not cheaper than testing to see if alt_odb_tail
is not null.

Because we are calling prepare_alt_odb() from within find_sha1_file
every time we cannot find an object file locally we want to skip out
of prepare_alt_odb() as early as possible once we have initialized
our alternate list.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:28:08 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
d079837eee Lazily open pack index files on demand
In some repository configurations the user may have many packfiles,
but all of the recent commits/trees/tags/blobs are likely to
be in the most recent packfile (the one with the newest mtime).
It is therefore common to be able to complete an entire operation
by accessing only one packfile, even if there are 25 packfiles
available to the repository.

Rather than opening and mmaping the corresponding .idx file for
every pack found, we now only open and map the .idx when we suspect
there might be an object of interest in there.

Of course we cannot known in advance which packfile contains an
object, so we still need to scan the entire packed_git list to
locate anything.  But odds are users want to access objects in the
most recently created packfiles first, and that may be all they
ever need for the current operation.

Junio observed in b867092f that placing recent packfiles before
older ones can slightly improve access times for recent objects,
without degrading it for historical object access.

This change improves upon Junio's observations by trying even harder
to avoid the .idx files that we won't need.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:28:08 -07:00
Lars Hjemli
70c7ac22de Add git-submodule command
This command can be used to initialize, update and inspect submodules. It
uses a .gitmodules file, readable by git-config, in the top level directory
of the 'superproject' to specify a mapping between submodule paths and
repository url.

Example .gitmodules layout:

[module "git"]
	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git

With this entry in .gitmodules (and a commit reference in the index entry for
the path "git"), the command 'git submodule init' will clone the repository
at kernel.org into the directory "git".

Known issues
============
There is currently no way to override the url found in the .gitmodules file,
except by manually creating the subproject repository. The place to fix this
in the script has a rather long comment about a possible plan.

Funny paths will be quoted in the output from git-ls-files, but git-submodule
does not attempt to unquote (or even detect the presence of) such paths.

Signed-off-by: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:24:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99b5a79e13 Make the pack-refs interfaces usable from outside
This just basically creates a "pack_refs()" function that could be used by
anybody. You pass it in the flags you want as a bitmask (PACK_REFS_ALL and
PACK_REFS_PRUNE), and it will do all the heavy lifting.

Of course, it's still static, and it's all in the builtin-pack-refs.c
file, so it's not actually visible to the outside, but the next step would
be to just move it all to a library file (probably refs.c) and expose it.

Then we could easily make "git gc" do this too.

While I did it, I also made it check the return value of the fflush and
fsync stage, to make sure that we don't overwrite the old packed-refs file
with something that got truncated due to write errors!

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 20:00:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c56ed464b0 Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  Fix mishandling of $Id$ expanded in the repository copy in convert.c
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 18:53:22 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d1c7c27ea3 Merge branch 'maint-1.5.1' into maint
* maint-1.5.1:
  Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
  More echo "$user_message" fixes.
  Add tests for the last two fixes.
  git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
  Documentation: Add definition of "evil merge" to GIT Glossary
  Replace the last 'dircache's by 'index'
  Documentation: Clean up links in GIT Glossary
2007-05-26 01:30:40 -07:00
Daniel Barkalow
8558fd9ece Move refspec pattern matching to match_refs().
This means that send-pack and http-push will support pattern refspecs,
so builtin-push.c doesn't have to expand them, and also git push can
just turn --tags into "refs/tags/*", further simplifying
builtin-push.c

check_ref_format() gets a third "conditionally okay" result for
something that's valid as a pattern but not as a particular ref.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 01:20:10 -07:00
James Y Knight
20b3d206ac Fix git-svn to handle svn not reporting the md5sum of a file, and test.
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 01:17:58 -07:00
Andy Parkins
c23290d528 Fix mishandling of $Id$ expanded in the repository copy in convert.c
If the repository contained an expanded ident keyword (i.e. $Id:XXXX$),
then the wrong bytes were discarded, and the Id keyword was not
expanded.  The fault was in convert.c:ident_to_worktree().

Previously, when a "$Id:" was found in the repository version,
ident_to_worktree() would search for the next "$" after this, and
discarded everything it found until then.  That was done with the loop:

    do {
        ch = *cp++;
        if (ch == '$')
            break;
        rem--;
    } while (rem);

The above loop left cp pointing one character _after_ the final "$"
(because of ch = *cp++).  This was different from the non-expanded case,
were cp is left pointing at the "$", and was different from the comment
which stated "discard up to but not including the closing $".  This
patch fixes that by making the loop:

    do {
        ch = *cp;
        if (ch == '$')
            break;
        cp++;
        rem--;
    } while (rem);

That is, cp is tested _then_ incremented.

This loop exits if it finds a "$" or if it runs out of bytes in the
source.  After this loop, if there was no closing "$" the expansion is
skipped, and the outer loop is allowed to continue leaving this
non-keyword as it was.  However, when the "$" is found, size is
corrected, before running the expansion:

    size -= (cp - src);

This is wrong; size is going to be corrected anyway after the expansion,
so there is no need to do it here.  This patch removes that redundant
correction.

To help find this bug, I heavily commented the routine; those comments
are included here as a bonus.

Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 01:12:43 -07:00
Jeff King
a23bfaed7d More echo "$user_message" fixes.
Here are fixes to more uses of 'echo "$msg"' where $msg could contain
backslashed sequence.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 00:33:03 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
816366e23d Add tests for the last two fixes.
This updates t4014 to check the two fixes for git-am and git-commit
we observed with "echo" that does backslash interpolation by default
without being asked with -e option.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 00:26:20 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
293623edbc git-commit: use printf '%s\n' instead of echo on user-supplied strings
This fixes the same issue git-am had, which was fixed by Jeff
King in the previous commit.  Cleverly enough, this commit's log
message is a good test case at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-26 00:23:23 -07:00
Jeff King
4b7cc26a74 git-am: use printf instead of echo on user-supplied strings
Under some implementations of echo (such as that provided by
dash), backslash escapes are recognized without any other
options. This means that echo-ing user-supplied strings may
cause any backslash sequences in them to be converted. Using
printf resolves the ambiguity.

This bug can be seen when using git-am to apply a patch
whose subject contains the character sequence "\n"; the
characters are converted to a literal newline. Noticed by
Szekeres Istvan.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-25 21:43:33 -07:00